Posts Tagged ‘Mavericks’

Just been bitten by this annoying bug on Mavericks after a seemingly innocuous reboot whereby I’m prompted repeatedly to unlock my “Local Items” keychain. No password I’m aware of works and mashing Cancel just puts you in an endless loop cycling through each application or framework that wants to access said keychain.

The solution is simple as outlined in the linked support document; just nuke the UUID-named folder in ~/Library/Keychains and reboot. The same folder will reappear afterwards but it’s fine to leave it if you’re not prompted to unlock it again. Obviously something got corrupted, possibly related to iCloud.